Dirty Stupid Wisdom with Ben Keaton
I know a lot of things.
Correction. I have a lot of experience.
Moments of brilliance, tragedy, joy, success and poor decisions. A slop bucket of life.
These essays are an effort to make sense of that. It's supposed to make sense isn't it? We wouldn't be the only known living beings in the star system for no reason, that would be ridiculous.
I like simple things. And I like the pain we suffer. It cuts through the noise. And I like my confusion funny. Dirty Stupid Wisdom is my collection of funny, ridiculous, painful moments that suggest clarity and insight. They won't cure you but they might sustain you for a short while.
Dirty Stupid Wisdom with Ben Keaton
I Lost My Virginity to a Drug Dealing Nurse
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I Lost My Virginity to a Drug-Dealing Nurse
An unflinching tale of sexual awaking, Irish style. Ben Keaton looks back on the miracle of how he lost his virginity — not in a romantic blur of youth, but with a drug-dealing nurse in Holloway in 1970s London. It's a story of hope rewarded, jacket potatoes, and the kind of sex education they never taught in school.
Dirty Stupid Wisdom is a podcast of comic essays written and read by Ben Keaton — actor, writer, Olivier Award-winner, and tireless adventurer. Each episode is under 20 minutes and perfectly suited for late-night listening.
Dirty Stupid Wisdom Litter: losing virginity, first-time sex, coming-of-age memoir, NHS nurses, 1970s London, drug culture, sexual awakening, comic true story.
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